Academic writing

I’m not passionate about academic writing. I see it as more of a requirement of the job as opposed to my forte or my main interest. Most of this sprouts from the fact that I find lots of academic literature to be quite inaccessible for the general public; to find, afford and read. However, here is a selection that I believe is open source and available for everyone to read.

Journal Articles:

A Comparative Analysis of the Different Ways that Feature Films have been Made as Part of Higher Education curricula (2026)

Best intentions gone wrong? Lessons learnt from a decade of teaching in sustainable film-making practice by an eco-enthusiastic educator (2025)

Where do we go from here?: Virtual Production and the potential impact on regional filmmaking (2023)

Creativity in the COVID-19 Crisis: Might the Current Student Adoption of Pre-Visualization Re- Center the Cruciality of Constructing the Mise-en-Scène? (2021) (with Samantha Iwowo and Christa van Raalte)

Can you see what I see? Differing perspectives between low and micro-budget filmmakers and film development agencies (2019)

Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set (2018) (with Allan Watson and Jenna Ward)

Theses:

I’ve always preferred to be applying my research into the wider world – hence the 72 Project and Filmbase Presents. So for anyone who is interested in reading the research behind these projects, here are my MA and PhD theses:

The Impact of Digital Technology upon the Filmmaking Production Process (2006)

A Different Understanding of Low and Micro-budget Film Production in the UK (2017)